Varieties of Securitization: Migration Governance along the Central Mediterranean Route

Eugenio Cusumano is full Professor of Political Science at the University of Messina, Italy.  He has published extensively on crisis management and border enforcement and is the principal investigator of the project “Securitizing Human Transit across the Central Mediterranean” (SHUT-MED), funded by the European Union and the Italian Ministry of Research. Luca Raineri is Assistant Professor in Security Studies at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy, where he co-leads the SHUT-MED project. He has conducted extensive fieldwork across Sub-Saharan Africa and worked as consultant on issues like peacebuilding, security and development, which are the focus of his scientific research. Diego Caballero-Vélez works on the SHUT-MED project as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Messina, Italy. He is the author of Contesting Migration Crises in Central Eastern Europe, published by Palgrave in 2023.